Published: Tuesday, 18th November, 2008 16:00
Taxi drivers convicted over speeding offences
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A GROUP of Reading taxi drivers were found guilty of perverting the course of justice on Monday.
Mohammed Naseem Bashir, 37, from Field Road, and Sarah Murrell, 27, from Salisbury Road, were found to have charged three other taxi drivers money to fill out motoring notices with false details.
Mohammed Naseer Bashir, 34, from Field Road, Jawaid Iqbal, 42, of Palmerstone Road, Earley and Raja Tariq Khan, 37, of Woodstock Road, Reading, were also sentenced at Oxford Crown Court. after pleading guilty to the service provided by Bashir and Murrell.
The group have clocked up more than 150 motoring offences with Reading Council’s licensing departments, including giving false driver nominations or vehicle registration to avoid speeding offences.
PC Carl Lewis, from Thames Valley Police’s Fixed Penalty Support Unit, said: “This was a very complicated, long-term investigation. It was vital to get the conviction of these offenders as their actions permitted professional drivers, who transport the public for a living, to drive without fear of prosecution for bad driving practices, such as jumping red lights and driving at excessive speeds.”
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